Cooper-Hewitt Selects DS+R as Exhibition Designer and Local Projects as Media Designer

Currently undergoing renovation: the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum inside the Carnegie Mansion in New York City (Photo: Elizabeth Felicella)

Diller Scofidio + Renfro were announced today as designers of the gallery and visitor experience for the reopening of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York exhibition specialists Local Projects will act as participatory media designer and develop engaging ways to access digital content at the museum and remotely. The museum campus is scheduled to reopen in 2014.
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